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[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

Smug points galore:
Home made veg soup (with home grown carrots, onion,
beans
and tomatoes)

plums

Rasisn,
dried apricots
and dried gcranberries

Home-grown cauliflower,
brocollli,
courgette
and onion

somthered in cheese sauce

Tomatoes
coleslaw
cucumber
banana
apple and blackberry crumble

How crap again.

I am blaming the rain

However, I have made a courgette and pepper quiche, mexican bake and banana bread ot day, and am making appke ans raspberry crumble otmorrow.
I have some friends coming in the morning and am v excitied

I am now craving apple crumble

Enjoy seeing your friends LR

Moll - do you use your allotment all year round?

so far today

apricots
blueberries
banana

think will stop using apricots in smoothies as the texture is like sick not good.

see you saturday my dears as i am off for a few days to nottingham. i expect it is raining there as well. but it will be different rain so that is ok

We are not too far from Nottingham - no rain as yet.

Peach

I started on a pear but it was cunting unpleasant.

I walked round town for a bit this morning. That's about as much as I can manage atm [waddle]. MW thinks the baby is transverse. Poo.

There has been some terrible fruit around this year TF... I am a bus ride away from Nottingham...OOOOOHHHHHH!!!

Hello veggers. You allotment gals, what do you do with chard? We have a bumper crop, but it's all just turning int a prehistoric looking giant plant and I don't really know what to do with it.

hello lovely people! Mits! {{hugs}}

Boco

chard...? Hmmm, I grow it to fill sace then never eat it as although I love spinach, i find chard too irony and earthy IYKWIM. Kale, now, I LIKE Kale.

Pea soup,
apple
vege lasagne
onions
spinach
tomatoes
courgette
lettuce
peppers
cucumber
carrots
green beans

everything homegrown, except the peppers.

Impressive Molly

Tomatoes
slald leaves
cucu,ber
green pepper
sweetcorn
courgette (in a homemade quiche)
apple and raspberry crumble
coleslaw

I am so full.
I have eaten far too much today again

I appear to have a large, squidgy sack filled with custatrd round my waist. I need to Get Rid of it.

I didn't mind putting on weight. I object to it settling just there. Hence bootcamp....

Molly dp has worked me out some 'circuits' and 'reps', with weights and things. He puts on loose trousers and claps his hands and makes me do lunges and sit ups and things with weights. I'm going to be like her off of terminator after the apocalypse type event pretty soon you know.

coool, I have the arms already...

Would running help do you think? (I have crap knees....and I might actually die if I run more than 5 mins. But it seems like a nice thing to do)

I do walk everywhere and cycle and garden energetically.

I think you have to do things like 'crunches' and sit ups. Sounds like you're already fit, just need to find a way to tone round the middle. Belly dancing? There are bellycise classes near hear but I'm a bit afraid of that sort of thing.

Near hear? Here. There are belly dancing classes near, do you hear? Over here!

How queer! Not near here, I fear.

I did bellydancing when i was younger. i was shit!

I could do yoga, I suppose. and tone it...?

Yeah do yoga and tone it. I once did that scary kind of yoga where they're really aggressive and strap you to walls. The instructor hated me and my friends and she stamped on one friends arthritic toes, and another friend she made her be the example person and then bent her over and poked her in the fanjo. We all left shaking and traumatised and decided we're not cut out for yoga.

Hi Boco, how's your dd?

How about pilates Moll? Or the really vigorous yoga maybe.

banana
blueberries
rocket
tomatoes x2
cucumber
cherries
apple x2
rhubarb

TF - you've still got time for the baby to move. Research optimal feotal positioning and you'll find some helpful info. I'm sure a big thing for OFP is to make sure your knees are lower than your pelvis when sitting.

fanjo poking in a yoga class?? You'd get some people paying for that!!

Is it ashtanga (sp?) that is the really physical one? It's the one that Madge does, apparantly.

She's a bit of nightmare lemur. She's not supposed to be climbing, scooting or leaping for a month, but that's all she does, all day. I need to tether her to something.

Yes it was ashtanga! I used to live near the ashtanga yoga centre in new cross so thought i'd give it a go. it was terrifying.

Sedation?

New Cross in south London? SCARY place.

Yes, went to college there and then lived in that area for years. Area not as scary as the ashtanga.

Hello!

Blueberries, pineapple, raisins, peas, tomato, pear, avocado (licked a bit off my hand that ds smeared on me ) Oh dear. Only about 5 portions. But a good half hour swimming

Can't keep up with everyone at the moment but HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Pink! I just got your message, thank you - did you send it via that form on website? I was most confused because my email told me it was highly dangerous and not to open it, but it was you and not dangerous at all. You were my first!